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He may even, as Waters suggests in one of the interviews here, have recorded work which he never released – perhaps so that the music wouldn’t become sullied by commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most important solo career here, though is the one which flowered most briefly: that of Syd Barrett. The music on his two solo albums is abstract, playful, and sometimes barely there, testament to a personality and mental health which wasn’t built to thrive within the demands of the pop business. As we know, Pink Floyd might have kicked out Syd Barrett, but that didn’t mean Syd would ever leave Pink Floyd: his departure gave them a problem to solve, and as they came to realise, a subject to try and solve it with. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Gilmour is on tour now, as Roger Waters often is. It is, though, probably Nick Mason’s work with Saucerful Of Secrets which these days best represents for the soul of Pink Floyd. 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You might also say it takes the listener somewhere otherworldly again: an interstellar overdrive, on course for more innocent times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCheck out the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Uncut Magazine\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eUncut Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e website for even more information.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Periodicals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41474711978118,"sku":"uncut-umg-pink-floyd-solo","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0088\/2959\/9806\/files\/uncut-umg-pink-floyd-solo.jpg?v=1733767098"},{"product_id":"uncut-magazine-ultimate-music-guide-the-police-issue-61-2025","title":"Uncut Magazine - Ultimate Music Guide: The Police (Issue 61)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe already know their ubiquitous singles, and their world-beating albums. 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Guided principally by the Siouxsie\/Severin aesthetic, the band embraced and outlived its impressive guitarists – John McKay, John McGeogh, Jon Klein, even fleetingly Johnny Marr – to restart itself with a new proposition whenever they chose. No wonder the Banshees embraced side-projects like The Glove and The Creatures. They craved the freshness and the challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn one of the classic encounters you’ll find in this magazine, Siouxsie herself hints at why this might be, and where the fan of interesting music might go if they wanted to hear more. In a 1989 Creatures interview, Siouxsie talks about her current musical enthusiasms. She likes Bjork, Sinead O’Connor, Michelle Shocked and Kate Bush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I really like women,” she tells Steve Sutherland. “I think women are the future. I’m more interested, musically in what women ore doing than men. I think the new female singers are much more exciting. 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It sounds impossible, doesn’t it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis fine magazine is out in UK shops tomorrow. But as this 172-page Definitive Edition Ultimate Music Guide to The Who reaches the USA, it will be doing so as The Who embark on their farewell North American tour, which begins in Florida on August 16th, winding up in Las Vegas on September 26th. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Well, all good things must come to an end,” Pete Townshend said at the announcement in early May. “It is a poignant time. For me, playing to American audiences and those in Canada has always been incredible…”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWell might he think that. Never mind the musical triumphs at generational events like Monterey (1967) or Woodstock (1969), or playing Tommy live for the first time at classical music venues. The USA was also a scene of great legend-making notoriety. That might mean detonating a chunk of a TV studio on the Smothers Brothers show or being banned from the Holiday Inn chain of hotels following Keith Moon’s birthday party. It was their playground, and – to be momentarily vulgar – also a place where they made a lot of money.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Who’s incredible story – via in-depth reviews of their stunning catalogue, to alarming recollections of Keith Moon’s high spirits, not to mention insightful interviews with Pete Townshend – are to be found in this new magazine. If you ever feel at sea in all those pages, our eight-page Miscellany timeline will quickly put you back on course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut what of The Who, 2025? 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There are in-depth reviews of every Pavement album, from the instantly charming and characterful debut Slanted And Enhanted to the wry complexity of their last, 1999’s Terror Twilight. We cover every Stephen Malkmus jam and solo records by Spiral Stairs, Marble Valley and Gary Young. You’ll also find thoughtful coverage on Pavement’s fellow traveller and guidance counsellor David Berman. There are classic archive interviews from gigs, pubs, and bookmaking establishments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat’s the glorious past. But what does all this activity mean for Pavement in the future? Speaking as he patrols round his home, seemingly on a post-tennis match buzz, Stephen Malkmus thinks it’s a small concern in the cosmic scheme of things. A new album?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What do you think?” he asks, throwing the question back, in a manner which suggests he’s genuinely curious to find out. 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Today we know, for example, “Fairytale Of New York” as a (now heavily-redacted) Christmas classic. To arrive there, as the band explain to Uncut in the magazine, required a sustained compositional effort, a fusion of ideas and a willingness (urged on by Elvis Costello, a kind of hero\/villain of the Pogues tale) to push things forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis they did, by expanding their personnel and taking influences from jazz, middle-eastern music and beyond, building a group whose world-hungry musicality found important fellow travellers in the shape of Joe Strummer, then on a similar journey: a fusion of his punk era aggression with a more open-ended music. 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